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title: Little daddy sparrow, have your fli-i-i-ing! — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Little daddy sparrow, have your fli-i-i-ing! Who acts: Little daddy sparrow, fli. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Sparrow and the Bush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Sparrow and the Bush, sentence 9

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Little daddy sparrow, have your fli-i-i-ing!

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**Who acts:** Little daddy sparrow, fli · **What happens:** have, ing

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Sparrow and the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little daddy sparrow, fli), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29672:11:9
# text = Little daddy sparrow, have your fli-i-i-ing!
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fli	fli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	ing	ing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Little daddy sparrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ing** |  | fli |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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